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Goldman Sachs Changes its Stance on Research In Motion
0By: Jeff Stewart | December 1st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Since Research In Motion’s forthcoming line-up of Blackberry phones have received positive feedback from various developers and telecom carriers, the share price of its stocks have responded quite positively. This has also forced several analysts to change their stance on the Waterloo based BlackBerry maker, including leading brokerage firm Goldman Sachs, the latest addition to this growing grou...
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Toronto-Based Photo Sharing Startup 500px Launches its First Ever iPhone App
By: Jeff Stewart | December 1st, 2012 | iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
After acquiring a France-based startup, Pulfingers that makes iOS apps for picture browsing, photo sharing startup 500px has launched its own hihgly awaited iPhone app. This was not the first iOS app that 500px has developed thus far, as a year ago they had released an app for iPad, using the larger screen to showcase its excellent ...
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BlackBerry 10 L-Series Makes Another Appearance Before Launch, This Time Next to Top Rivals
By: Ali Raza | December 1st, 2012 | News, Smartphones
As the launch date of the BlackBerry 10 L-series approaches quickly, the slew of photographs depicting the forthcoming device seems to be growing steadily. This, as is often the case, is enough the whet the appetite of the tech savvy public while building the type of hype RIM needs to have for success. A recent photo of the BlackBerry 10 L-series has emerged on the scene late this week, created a...
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Mind Blowing Computer Graphics at 2012 Siggraph Asia Depicts the Future of the Technology
By: Ali Raza | December 1st, 2012 | News
As time passes, computer graphic designers have produced such phenomenal graphics that with the advancements made in technology that it often feels that the work is an actual real life picture or movie. The most frequent place we bare witness to such visuals is in the abundance of Hollywood movies today. The film industry frequently uses CGI or Computer Graphic Images in their films. The Matrix ...
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Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Adds $100 Million to its Venture Capital IT Fund
By: Jeff Stewart | December 1st, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
On the eve of allocating $400 million in funds in support of private sector investment in prospective start-ups during the 2012 budget, the federal government of Canada also did not forget to reiterate its previous commitment to shore up the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC
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[Report] African Mobile Market is the Fastest Growing in the Entire World
By: Jeff Stewart | December 1st, 2012 | Business, News, Smartphones
In recent times, mobile phone manufacturers have bombarded markets world round with an array of smartphones.As a result of this saturation, it now looks as if this new breed of mobile handsets have wiped out the traditional text plus talk mobile phones, relegating said devices to the sidelines thanks to growing demand for smarter devices. According to ABI Research, Africa is fast bec...
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Taxi Service Startup Hailo and Molson Coors Canada Partner Up To Offer Toronto Safe Rides
By: Talha Bhatti | December 1st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian startup HailO has teamed up with Molson Coors Canada to offer the residents of Toronto safe passage home after a night out with friends. The partnership is an effort by the two companies to make the upco...
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Kik Messenger Gets HTML5 Based Kik Cards for Sharing Content on The Popular App
By: Talha Bhatti | December 1st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian startup Kik Interactive announced the launch of Kik Cards on November 29. The latest from the makers of Kik messenger will allow smartphone users to share content through Kik in an easy and convenient way. The latest update from the company has come after a quite some time . The last updated included group chat that was announced at the South...
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Ouya Ready To Ship Android Powered Dev Gaming Consoles In December
By: Talha Bhatti | December 1st, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Games, News
Ouya announced on November 30 that they would be shipping out the developer kits for their tiny gaming console on December 28th with the company also stating that developers would have the Software Development Kit or ODK available for download on exactly the same day. Many people were also excited to see a image of the Android-powered ...
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Khosla Ventures Leads $6.5 million Series A funding Round For Ginger.io
By: Kevin Green | November 30th, 2012 | Business, Health, Mobile Apps, News
Ginger.io, a startup that deals with behavioral health analytics, has made public that it has received $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures on November 28. Other participants in the round included seed investors True Ventures and
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